If I described a particular footwear to you and said they were functional, airy, simple, and easy to clean would your immediate response be hate and animosity towards me? As a rational and free-thinking individual the answer would be "no" right? Alas many people, including friends, say otherwise and displayed a surprising vehemence to this footwear and the wearer or in this case potential wearer. After I expressed interest in these particular sandals whose only uniqueness was its extreme utilitarian design, a neo-style if you will, my friends reacted as if I said I was off to join Al Qaeda or Fox News. Here's a representative sample of the knee-jerk reaction:
MC: We will no longer be friends and I'm serious. .. wearing [them] is like killing puppies.
KM: I find them offensive.
Chris B.: What?? And you make fun of my Uggs??
ON: Loser
As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view." I hope my friends would open their arms, heart, and feet to Crocs before they judge so, oh so harshly. Judge a man not by the sandals of his feet, but by the content of his character. Or her feet and her character.